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The De-Conversion of Kit Lamb

The De-Conversion of Kit Lamb

Kasten, Kate

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0615390854
ISBN13: 9780615390857
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 14 2010
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Kit Lamb, as a troubled teenager, has been drawn into a Charismatic Christian church, where he feels saved not only by his new religion but by his fatherly pastor, Ezra. Now, at twenty-one, he travels to Guatemala to learn Spanish and fit himself for life as a missionary. In 1983, Guatemala is ruled by born-again, bible-believing dictator, Efraín Ríos Montt, a real historical figure admired by Ronald Reagan and many U.S. evangelicals but condemned by human rights organizations as a genocidal tyrant. Kit meets and is drawn to Colleen-the first link in his de-conversion. Critical of his religious beliefs, which include support for the regime, Colleen reluctantly helps Kit exchange his dollars and find his way to his school in Antigua. Kit begins to notice that the government's treatment of the impoverished Indians is not as benign as it is purported to be. Hearing one of Ríos Montt's famous Sunday sermons, in which the dictator vows to crush the opposition insurgency, branding it as communist and satanic, Kit finds Ríos Montt ruthless and intimidating. The cynical insinuations of a CIA operative at his school and the mysterious mission that Colleen seems to be pursuing lead Kit to the Pacific Coast where he falls victim to la violencia perpetrated by Ríos Montt's theocratic dictatorship. In the end, Kit must decide whether to hold on to the comfort of his fundamentalism or accept the truth of his own experience.

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